From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vipin KUMAR Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 14:37:03 +0530 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 12/17] SPEAr : i2c driver moved completely into drivers/i2c In-Reply-To: <4BDE1804.2080705@bumblecow.com> References: <1272250610-15439-1-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-2-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-3-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-4-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-5-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-6-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-7-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-8-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-9-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-10-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-11-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-12-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <1272250610-15439-13-git-send-email-vipin.kumar@st.com> <4BDE1804.2080705@bumblecow.com> Message-ID: <4BDFE3B7.7090809@st.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 5/3/2010 5:55 AM, Tom Rix wrote: > Vipin KUMAR wrote: >> The i2c IP used by spear platform is a synopsys i2c controller > > 'IP' expand. IP is Intellectual Property i.e peripheral hardware > What is the connection between 'synopsys' and 'designware' ? > If the part is synopsys, that should be the string used > instead of 'dw' or 'designware' Synopsys is the vendor and designware is the class of peripherals from synopsys >> The earlier driver adds the driver of this controller as if it is >> specific to >> spear platform. >> The driver files are now moved into drivers/i2c folder for reusability >> by other > > Maybe something like > 'The earlier i2c driver was specific to spear platforms. > This driver has been moved to the common driver directory drivers/i2c > where it can be used by other platforms' > OK. I would improve on this Regards Vipin